General Chat

I have notebooks every where. One in each handbag, one by my bedside, one next to me in the living room. You never know when Ideas may come, but they can go just as quickly unless you write them down.

You dont' have to write much, just enough trigger words to remind you.

I don't think i would be very popular if I tried to write something in the night though. My OH has very acute hearing (unlike me Lol!!!) and would be immediately awake at the scratch of a pen.

A trip to the loo might help though LOL

Might help but a notebook in the loo wouldn't as I don't put the light on, it shines straight into our bedroom. Life is complicated isn't it?

didn't know poetry could be a reason for divorce grounds...pmsl :o))

Liked the poem Stella, thanks for sending....I'll have to see what I can scribble down again soon, I think I may have received a couple of offerings from some of you....don't want to lag behind lol!
Loved getting the photos, it is great to put a face to a name, whether we like our own mug shots or not lol!
Mine was taken last August in Beddington Park, we had a barbeque to celebrate one of my grandsons birthday.

That was great Stella.
Not stopping ,still catching up with family.Son finally home to celebrate his birthday after being snowed in down in Kent for the last few days.

i have enjoyed all the things i have read so far... am getting withdrawal symptoms now....

has anyone written anything else ?

:O))

lol Stella I am the same...I took what I printed off to bed last night , but it didn't last long , so as I couldn't sleep for coughing I read Harry Potter after .
xx

i think this 2 week deadline is too long for me ...i am
impatient to move on, but i do realize that some members need longer than others because they are working or busy..

lol...I haven't written anything since but I really want to get my hands on my story and change loads! BC XX

Teresa kindly pointed out errors in my first piece, i was really pleased that she had because now i have edited it and it reads much better just for changing a few words..

Teresa is very good at offering a helpful criticism. I truly hate the criticising part, I wish we didn't have to as it would be so easy to tread on someone's dreams and put them off writing! I would much prefer if we had a panel of critics who don't write. XX

BC we will all have to be strong enough to withstand criticism. I too had some good help from Teresa. I may be too easy to please as, apart from typos I haven't really seen anything to criticize. I have written one other piece but was holding back as I wasn't sure how many pieces of prose we had to write.

I don't mind taking it Ann (I think) but I hate giving it....XX

edit....I thought we all had one piece to do this time?

Glad you found my comments useful Stella and Ann.

As for treading on dreams, it really depends how you tell someone. I mean, if you said, sorry, didn't like that, it was full of mistakes and was weak (not that any of the work I've read so far has been weak or full of mistakes), then yes you will tread on their dreams and damage their confidence.

But hopefully we can all offer useful comment on how to improve, what leaves us asking questions, whether a little more description/prose/dialogue/action would be needed etc. while being encouraging at the same time.

I loved BC's piece, not because I'm biased, but because it was so good and so well written there really was nothing to say.

Over time, perhaps I can pass on the little tips I have learned on the way through my course so far, and others can do the same. That way we all learn and improve and build up our confidence in our own abilities.

i would hate to think someone had noticed something in my work that could be changed for the better and not said anything to me..

Me too Stella, and as this is amongst friends, done between us all only, then it should be easier, without being picky of course, to be able to say, 'perhaps you could change this bit' or 'could you expand on this bit' or even 'you said that word three times in that sentence' *cough*

This isn't a competition, so we should be able to say what's good AND what's not so good without being judgemental or feeling we're being judged. It's just for leisure after all.

Sorry was just off typing something up to send to Stella...for her withdrawal symptoms lol...

Just going to read back, but are we going to submit our criticisms all in one go or send out to individuals as the pieces come in? If so I will get cracking lol.

xx

I've already done my criticisms on those who have posted so far, I think. I did them as and when to the individuals.